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Enter Idei, the man who made Digital Dreams the mantra of Sony's revival. The golf-loving son of an economics professor, Idei is a Sony lifer who started in 1960, straight out of Tokyo's prestigious Waseda University. Waves of surprise rippled through the company when Idei was tapped for the top job in April 1995. He leapfrogged a dozen more senior managers, accomplished executives with nicknames like "Mr. Walkman," "Mr. Semiconductor" and "Mr. Camcorder," for their roles in Sony's engineering triumphs. Idei was quite different. He studied European history in college. He's fluent in French...
...find no point where a fetus miraculously becomes a human being if it were not one all along. (It may not be a completely developed specimen of humanity, but then again, neither is a ten-year-old.) I don't run around with shotguns (neither does any pro-lifer I know), but I can't help hoping that the laws of the country will change to protect these "least among us," as many of our other articles of legislated morality already do. If that makes me an "extremist," so be it. I am not free to act on a definition...
First, the pro-life position should not be seen as a 'religious view.' Many religions oppose abortion, but the pro-life argument need not be religiously based. As a pro-lifer I believe (1) an individual's life begins at the moment of conception and (2) every human being has the inalienable right to life...
...works very smartly. The Simpson-Bruckheimer production duo run clever variations on their macho obsessions (missiles, car chases, gay baiting, the Crimson Tide mutiny plot). Connery and Cage are fine odd-couple buddies--the grizzled lifer and the computer nerd who, even when tossing a live grenade, throws like a girl. This ain't art, exactly. But if you're at the 'plex and need to choose between The Rock and a Cruise place, it's no choice...
...engages in, because genocide is just, well, over the top. But evil, in Integrity, seems a pretty makeshift deus ex machina. If, for example, racism is such a self-evident no-no, then why not sexism--including any attempt to restrict women's reproductive choices? Or, a pro-lifer could argue, if genocide is evil, then why not abortion? This is where the handshakes end and the howitzers come...